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I want to compare apples to oranges. Give me two incomparable things (e.g. sunsets and Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy; “Great Expectations” and Tylenol; Frank Miller’s “Batman: Year One” and garlic bread) and I’ll say which is better.
Elbows. Hominids survived for millions of years without prime numbers, and I don’t think we could have gotten to a place where we could formulate them if we couldn’t bend our forelimbs.
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B:Y1
Miller’s most restrained and grounded writing; David Mazzucchelli’s art holds up very well. Garlic bread is a culinary distraction. Too easy to fill up on, and when used to mop up pasta sauce, its seasoning gets overpowered by the pasta’s flavors.
https://twitter.com/corymassimino/status/1264662637457092608?s=21 https://twitter.com/corymassimino/status/1264662637457092608
Miller’s most restrained and grounded writing; David Mazzucchelli’s art holds up very well. Garlic bread is a culinary distraction. Too easy to fill up on, and when used to mop up pasta sauce, its seasoning gets overpowered by the pasta’s flavors.
https://twitter.com/corymassimino/status/1264662637457092608?s=21 https://twitter.com/corymassimino/status/1264662637457092608
“Ascenseur pour l'échafaud.” Even if you hate it, it’s only 88 minutes long. Inflammatory diseases can cause pain and impairment for an entire lifetime.
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Math. The disjunctive object “anything besides math” is too vague to evaluate, mathematics wins by default.
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Hats. We shouldn’t be eating red meat.
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Hats.
Hats have existed much longer than Meatloaf, and exerted more influence. I expect they will outlast Meatloaf’s music, and exert a broader cultural impact. It’s just so hard for Meatloaf to catch up at this point.
https://twitter.com/corymassimino/status/1264675911149989889?s=21 https://twitter.com/corymassimino/status/1264675911149989889
Hats have existed much longer than Meatloaf, and exerted more influence. I expect they will outlast Meatloaf’s music, and exert a broader cultural impact. It’s just so hard for Meatloaf to catch up at this point.
https://twitter.com/corymassimino/status/1264675911149989889?s=21 https://twitter.com/corymassimino/status/1264675911149989889
Foot cream. I think even Hegel—living before the invention of fungicides, and having to walk on bumpy Prussian cobblestone streets—would have appreciated Lotrimin.
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“Purpose,” olives are disgusting.
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Peirce. He may not have given an adequately clear definition of “Third-ness,” but I’m not aware of any jazz soloists who have even tried to.
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Apples. Oranges have a more impressive suite of vitamins, but gush everywhere and have that weird, inconvenient skin.
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Shoelaces. Western philosophy has gotten along fine only knowing Parmenides in fragments and secondhand accounts. But if I had to outrun a collapsing cherry-picker, I’d NEED to keep my shoes on!
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Bonfires. We shouldn't eat artiodactyla. https://twitter.com/thecozoutlet/status/1264707566707314688?s=20
First snowball.
Snowball fights are usually a wholesome social activity. We, collectively, eat too much sugar, and cotton candy is not even especially good. https://twitter.com/G_Pack/status/1264719857607729152?s=20
Snowball fights are usually a wholesome social activity. We, collectively, eat too much sugar, and cotton candy is not even especially good. https://twitter.com/G_Pack/status/1264719857607729152?s=20
Morality. Art can make life much more rich and enjoyable, but ethics makes it livable in the first place. https://twitter.com/HauntedBeaker/status/1264750378064601088?s=20
